Now they do…
Let’s call it “LiFI” 
Ok, I am a fond of linux. My wifi router runs linux, my NAS, my security cameras, my media player, even one of my TVs runs linux. And of course my PCs, phone and tablet too. But I don’t yet see the need for my light bulbs to run it.
Light communication for IoT also seems less than ideal, devices can’t talk back unless they are have a radio, making light communication redundant, or the device is also a light bulb in the same room.
They could build a bridge device that flashes… but frankly, who in the hell would want a light bulb that runs Linux? Or an IOT pretty much anything. There are already connected refrigerators, dishwashers, TVs, etc spewing spam and malware.
Skynet will become self aware soon. J)
Cause lightbulbs were the final thing it needed?
The first self-aware computers will be Google’s search engine… Think I’m kidding? Think about it…
"The ibulb is designed to light up if an apple device carrying person enters the room, if only an android device is present, the bulb sends emp shockwaves to destroy the competition"
With a useful level of computing getting so cheap and low-power lately, it makes sense to run a personal “cloud” made of common appliances. Who needs a web/email server when you’ve got light bulbs and a coffee pot? Your refrigerator could totally be using its spare cycles to search for a cure for cancer, or to pre-fetch your favorite youtube channels. Or your alarm clock could talk to your coffee pot, letting it know when to start making your morning drink. Etcetera.
It may sound crazy, but let me quote a similar story from the past:
Intelligent life has a tendency to gradually convert all available matter into calculators. Eventually we might all be software running on floating chunks of computronium, orbiting the sun as a series of concentric sparse Dyson spheres, each layer running off the waste heat of the layers below it. You then pay your right to exist by generating useful ideas more efficiently than your peers, or you move to cheaper real estate in the outer layers where there is less power and lower clock speeds.
Sounds like a secret personal Steve Jobs project. He reportedly hated android with some passion.
Now the question is: Does your bra run Linux?
Does it have boob screens of death? Do you have to re-boob after updates?
Saw that. It’s ridiculous imho. Is it washable? How often does it need to be charged? Does it preform a useful real function? Who cares, it has breasts inside! It’s click bait for intel’s chip. The fact that they have to resort to “Look boobs!” to get attention for their chip does not bode well for it’s actual capabilities.
Someone also had a color changing bra that was similarly not usable at all. Half stiff plastic, could never be washed.
Now, if I could just find a jockstrap that runs Windows 10, my life would be complete. Just think of all the data it could phone home to Brother Bill…
Would you rather your lightbulb run reliable Linux or would you prefer it be Micr
(insert BSOD image in a blackened room here)
Phil
Well, light bulbs tend to be switched on and off quite often. Linux is not known to enjoy random/uncontrolled shutdowns. Also takes a while to boot up. I wonder how they handle those issues? When I hit my light switch, I want my freakin’ photons NOW!
Yup, that kind of thought process is pretty scary, but also kind of reasonably probable. I also find the idea very probable that one of the main reasons we don’t hear from intelligent life is it has a tendency of evolving into silicone once it gets advanced enough, which has no real interest in “us” anymore. Plus the “move to cheaper real estate” is unlikely, I’d say you’d be erased if not found valuable, more probably 
Silicon is pretty much where life was when crawled out of the primordial ooze. Monkey technology has already pushed it to pretty much its evolutionary limits. Moore’s law is clinking to the end of its silicon rope.
- I guess you’ve never heard of Raspberry Pi. It boots up when power is applied, and can be turned off by removing the power supply. Hmm, same as a light bulb! They’ve been doing it for years already now.
2) The Linux part of the bulb circuitry doesn’t have to be in control of the bulb’s ability to light up a room. However, modern Linux OS can boot rather quickly.
3) At least Linux is able to be scaled down far enough to fit in a standard size light bulb. I’d like to see you try to get Windows working in that small of a space. Hint: I said “working”. :bigsmile:
Yep, and lots of people have had file system corruption issues… even on read-only file systems. Could be hardware rather than software issues. And don’t get me started on Beagle Bone Black shutdowns…
I have used gen 1 RPi with XBMC on F2FS experimental(!) file system and never had any
data integrity problems.